Example sentences of "she had be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with . |
| 2 | They had helped with their mother 's care when she had been at home , and taken part in planning her funeral . |
| 3 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 4 | It was news to her , she had been at home all the time and her husband had taken another ‘ wife ’ . |
| 5 | Back in the main sitting room where she had been at first she was introduced to Antonietta 's husband Gennaro who was the head of the household . |
| 6 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 7 | The profession was too professional , a long study , and she had been at university , a giddy time . |
| 8 | Although , as for this last speculation , Harriet could not help thinking that if Liza was still as distressed as she had been at home , she would have been even more likely to let her mother know , for she had never before been one to suffer in silence . |
| 9 | She stayed in Danzig five or six weeks , to her daughter-in-law 's horror and embarrassment , since she had her cryings and roarings ‘ as well as if she had been at home ’ . |
| 10 | She had been at her worst between Spanish Fork and Dead Rat , when Elder Seth and the voices of the dead were arguing inside her head . |
| 11 | When she had been at art college , but that was just kids hunting for trophies , and they had n't meant a toss to her . |
| 12 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 13 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 14 | But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time . |
| 15 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 16 | Just as well that she had been at least spared the ordeal of having to face him this morning . |
| 17 | She had been at one of the best State schools in England , where she would still be , no doubt , but for what Toby had heard referred to as an Incident . |
| 18 | According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . |
| 19 | She once confessed how unhappy she had been at home . |
| 20 | After that she had been at pains to assure him she could cope very well and was about to go to see her inheritance . |
| 21 | It was years since she had ridden a bike too , not since she had been at school and had cycled home each day . |
| 22 | She retreated round the stall ; she had been at the front , helping a customer to choose something from what remained unsold . |
| 23 | If she had been at court the young dandies would have written odes and sonnets to her eyebrows , her finger nails and her sweet rose mouth . |
| 24 | She had been at a Women 's Aid conference in London all weekend , and she was tired and depressed . |
| 25 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 26 | In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year . |
| 27 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
| 28 | When she had been at college she had socialised in plenty and had had her fair share of boyfriends , Ashley reflected , as they drove along , but since then her energies had been single-mindedly channelled into her career . |
| 29 | Sophie looked almost as surprised as she had been at Helen 's news . |
| 30 | For heaven 's sake , she 'd been under a bit of strain of late , so what was more natural than that , having at last met the man she had been at pains to meet — actually being out walking with him , and on such a lovely sharp but sunny day — she should — er — relax a little ? |